Previously
on Red Widow Season 1 Episode 7 "The Coke", Marta discovers the painful
truth about the identity of Natalie's kidnapper and learns a compelling
new piece of information about her husband's murder. Red Widow Season 1 Episode 8 Meanwhile, Gabriel takes dangerous matters into his own hands, and Kat and Ramos rekindle their illicit relationship. Red Widow Season 1 Episode 8

On
this week's Episode title "The Hit", Since Marta now believes Schiller
murdered her husband, she asks Andrei and Luther to help her come up
with a revenge plan to kill him during the gun exchange. Red Widow Season 1 Episode 8
Also, an emboldened Marta approaches Alexandra to take over Schiller's
drug trade; and a remorseful Irwin tells Kat he wants to make up for the
damage he's done.

Marta Walraven seems to have an idyllic life. Red Widow Season 1 Episode 8 A stay-at-home mom in tony Marin County, just north of San Francisco, she is devoted to her three children and her husband. Red Widow Season 1 Episode 8
Behind this perfect façade, however, is a more complicated story: Evan,
Marta’s husband, supports the family by exporting marijuana. Red Widow Season 1 Episode 8
Marta is familiar with the world of organized crime: her father, Andrei
Petrov, and his loyal bodyguard, Luther, are Bratva – Russian gangsters
– in San Francisco. Red Widow Season 1 Episode 8 It’s a world from which she and her sister Kat always wanted to escape, though they never quite did. Red Widow Season 1 Episode 8

But when Evan is brutally murdered in their driveway, everything changes. Red Widow Season 1 Episode 8
Marta’s first concern is to protect her children – and yet when FBI
Agent James Ramos promises Marta justice in exchange for her
cooperation, she cannot go against the Bratva code. Red Widow Season 1 Episode 8 She refuses his help.

Slowly,
the truth about her husband’s murder begins to emerge: Evan’s business
partners – Marta’s scheming brother, Irwin Petrov, and their best
friend, the hapless Mike Tomlin – were involved in the theft of millions
of dollars of cocaine from the formidable international crime boss,
Nicholae Schiller. Red Widow Season 1 Episode 8 Evan paid with his life, but as far as Schiller is concerned, his debt is not clear. Red Widow Season 1 Episode 8
It falls to Marta, as Evan’s widow, to navigate the criminal underworld
in order to repay this debt – in whatever way Schiller sees fit.